New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-10
MEN MET IN A WINTER WALK.
TIE SHIFTING THRONES IN BROADWAY.

WHAT WAS SEEN BY STROLLER AND SOME THINGS
THAT WERE SAID TO HIM.
Tho millions that como and go daily In New-YOTk
inst nctively turn their footsteps Broadway. Tho
sroling observer may turn his 0tsteps elsewhere.
He may range through Sixth ave, with It's bIong Of
shoppers. pass down the Bowefy where the work
ing people resort swing out Of such pastures into
the tene,nenthou-e regions that lie eastward, but
invariably he will drift back to Broadway, the great
hfaro. with It's stream of faces, Its won
derful show windows, and its yellow street cars You
wonder as you pass along whore ali the people come
rom and what they doing in Nrw-iork. because
Though the majority arc New York faces, you dis
cover every uent some face tfom far away.
THE TRIBUNE Stroller On Saturday first near
the New-York Hotel which has been the homo of
Southern vsityrs in this CITY ever sinco the days
during the war, when 1t subjected to military
scrutiny, the lean form of General Thomas L. Cling
man, of Buno0mbe County, N. 4. He looks like a
remnant Of tho South that crushed by the march
to the rather thnn like type of the New south
Of ii. W. Grady's description. Forty four years ago
Cen Clingman "A member Of Congress For fifteen
years he held Ilaco In the lower branch, and was
then appointed United States senator TO fill vacancy.
ind in 1860 elected to full term. He was a
q stirring actor In events that ac Ike dreams U
most of the rest Of 1t was during his term hS
Congressman that tho famous phrase "Tallng ior
Buno Jmbe," originated. The General Is sun
talking for Buncomhe and thinks no has demonstrated
that mineral found in his county VIII make SUD
strute for carbon points electric lighting which
will eventually DO adopted by all electricians.
Tall and portly. heavy in franc and figure with
swartby, well rounded face, Jet black hair, eyes
ind mustache. is the man who follows General Cling
man In The Strui.ers vision 1t IL John c. Calhoun.
10 Is the lneai descendent of the great apostle and
advocate Of siavocracy. This Calhoun is a different
type of man from his fiery progcntor somewhere
in his ancestry he got a bit OF phlegmatic tenn
crament which has sObcrcd his judgment and steaded
his action. He IL planter on largo scale In
al.ttca OH
followed by the Democratic leaders, although he
crsistently refuses to enter POLITICS himself Like
many other leading Southerners. he is engaged IN
railroad and other business schemes and spends much
time in New York Al Promoting them
Now they begin to como along fast Hero Is '"
". Riddle, tho old president of tho Penn Natlonal
Bank at Pttsburg, who once had the secretiryshi
OF the treasury offered HIN was worth his million,
lost 1t In oil, and recovering II as broker La
VAN Street.
Steele Mackayc and Colonel tom" Ochitree arc wa
Ing along like twins, pouring INTO each Others ears
the condolences Of the day. The Col,n"l ia ambe,
hued and nd topped The theatrical manager Is
DARK, swarthy and Romanesquo.
Jaunty and athletic little Jack " Shay tho book
heerer at the Gsey House for breath OF the sin
no, thrrn air. IL Ia sal that when Jaek" takes the
peD OF his g he eau jump over ten-r"i fehc' anu
ontrun any amateur In New York Senator En2ene
Hale Maine wi his head erect and his body carried
al ING at quick STEP Ia his 10 the station. goinH
washn ston after having boon home to thank the
Leeislature u reelection. He sage that he saw MI
Blaine while In Mnnr and that the Latter DECLARED pos
lively hal ell preferences ~ he eena
iorsbip contest IN New York * Collector william H.
Rohrrtsnp grvwius grayer ana oer IN apprar,rce IA
coming OF the Fifth Avrnu Hotel from coIrrrIce
with Senator Warner Miller. and General Arson O. Me
Cook Ia slipping away from the same gentleman
}cnernl A. j. G. Foye. the active man "f Tie DlAoi
Crcine Company who Ia snpp sed to know moro about
lrad nci- tran snv maa ~ the sorid on MS way 20
the Ohio Society He IL nem"er OF III" GOVERN
ing Commute organization. sod has stood god
Iahrr for tue Initial ION lrHst n OF lts inem
fAfa IIta sFxl A merry lan
quick IA speech ani action.